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Lexicon :: Strong's G3727 - horkos

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ὅρκος
Transliteration
horkos (Key)
Pronunciation
hor'-kos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From herkos (a fence, perhaps akin to ὅριον (G3725))
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:457,729

Strong’s Definitions

ὅρκος hórkos, hor'-kos; from ἕρκος hérkos (a fence; perhaps akin to G3725); a limit, i.e. (sacred) restraint (specially, an oath):—oath.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G3727 in the following manner: oath (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G3727 in the following manner: oath (10x).

  1. that which has been pledged or promised with an oath

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὅρκος hórkos, hor'-kos; from ἕρκος hérkos (a fence; perhaps akin to G3725); a limit, i.e. (sacred) restraint (specially, an oath):—oath.
STRONGS G3727:
ὅρκος, ὅρκου, ὁ (from ἔργῳ, εἴργω; equivalent to ἕρκος an enclosure, confinement; hence, Latinorcus) (from Homer down), the Sept. for שֲׁבוּעָה, an oath: Matthew 14:7, 9; Matthew 26:72; Mark 6:26; Luke 1:73 (Winers Grammar, 628 (583); Buttmann, § 144, 13); Acts 2:30 (Winer's Grammar, 226 (212); 603 (561)); Hebrews 6:16; James 5:12; by metonymy, that which has been pledged or promised with an oath; plural vows, Matthew 5:33 ((cf. Wünsche ad loc.)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
5:33; 14:7; 14:9; 26:72
Mark
6:26
Luke
1:73
Acts
2:30
Hebrews
6:16
James
5:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3727 matches the Greek ὅρκος (horkos),
which occurs 40 times in 38 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. So Abimelech rose with Phichol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33 - Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - “And if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be released from this oath; only do not take my son back there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - “Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 - Then he went up from there to Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - So he called it Shebah.[fn] Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba[fn] to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 - So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19 - And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had placed the children of Israel under solemn oath, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here with you.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - “then an oath of the LORD shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand into his neighbor’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept that, and he shall not make it good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - ‘Or if a person swears, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man may pronounce by an oath, and he is unaware of it—when he realizes it, then he shall be guilty in any of these matters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - then the priest shall put the woman under the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman—“the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh rot and your belly swell;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - “If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:10 - “If she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound herself by an agreement with an oath,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13 - “Every vow and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband may confirm it, or her husband may make it void.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - “but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:17 - So the men said to her: “We will be blameless of this oath of yours which you have made us swear,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - “So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be guiltless. And whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:20 - “And if you tell this business of ours, then we will be free from your oath which you made us swear.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:20 - “This we will do to them: We will let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:5 - The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who did not come up with the assembly to the LORD?” For they had made a great oath concerning anyone who had not come up to the LORD at Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26 - And when the people had come into the woods, there was the honey, dripping; but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:7 - But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the LORD’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43 - “Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the commandment that I gave you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:16 - The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:15 - And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and sought Him with all their soul; and He was found by them, and the LORD gave them rest all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:9 - The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24 - Whoever is a partner with a thief hates his own life;
He swears to tell the truth,[fn] but reveals nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:2 - I say, “Keep the king’s commandment for the sake of your oath to God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 - All things come alike to all:

One event happens to the righteous and the wicked;
To the good,[fn] the clean, and the unclean;
To him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice.
As is the good, so is the sinner;
He who takes an oath as he who fears an oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - “that I may establish the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them ‘a land flowing with milk and honey,’[fn] as it is this day.” ’ ” And I answered and said, “So be it, LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - “Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - But do not seek Bethel,
Nor enter Gilgal,
Nor pass over to Beersheba;
For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
And Bethel shall come to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:17 - Let none of you think evil in your[fn] heart against your neighbor;
And do not love a false oath.
For all these are things that I hate,’
Says the LORD.”
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